Moses Lemans

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Moses Lemans
Born	November 5, 1785 Naarden, Netherlands
Died	October 17, 1832 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Moses Lemans (November 5, 1785, Naarden, Netherlands – October 17, 1832, Amsterdam, Netherlands) was a Dutch-Jewish Hebraist and mathematician, and a leader of the Haskalah movement in Holland. He was a founder of the Jewish Mathematicians' Association, Mathesis Artium Genetrix, and published a number of works on Hebrew grammar and mathematics.^[1]

Born in Naarden, Lemans was educated by his father and (in mathematics) by Judah Littwack. He helped found Hanokh la na'ar al pi darkho, a society for reform in Jewish education, for which he published a number of Hebrew textbooks. In 1818 he was appointed head of the first school for needy Jews in Amsterdam, and in 1828 teacher of mathematics in the Amsterdam gymnasium.